Product Strategy Contract Job Trends in Reading

Product Strategy
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Product Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 77 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Product Strategy 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.69% 0.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £660 - -
25th Percentile £694 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £675 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +45.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Product Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 634 833 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.93% 92.45% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 456 591
10th Percentile £325 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £431 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +8.62% -
75th Percentile £623 £650 £615
90th Percentile £665 £681 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 8 16
10th Percentile £14.63 £28.18 £55.83
25th Percentile £58.00 £39.13 £60.59
Median hourly rate £80.50 £59.63 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -5.78% -9.91%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.26 £65.44
90th Percentile £105.75 £75.56 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £60.57
% change year-on-year -5.68% +1.53% -6.82%

Product Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Product Strategy job vacancy trend in Reading

Product Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Product Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Product Strategy

Product Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) 5G
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Product Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Security Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Security Product Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Product Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Project Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Innovation
2 3 (60.00%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (60.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto